Karen C. Short

2.0k total citations
40 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Karen C. Short is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. According to data from OpenAlex, Karen C. Short has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 19 papers in Ecology and 8 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. Recurrent topics in Karen C. Short's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (37 papers), Rangeland and Wildlife Management (19 papers) and Landslides and related hazards (8 papers). Karen C. Short is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (37 papers), Rangeland and Wildlife Management (19 papers) and Landslides and related hazards (8 papers). Karen C. Short collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Czechia. Karen C. Short's co-authors include Charles W. McHugh, Mark A. Finney, Isaac C. Grenfell, Karin L. Riley, Alan A. Ager, Michelle A. Day, David E. Calkin, Cody Evers, Matthew P. Thompson and Christine S. Olsen and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Scientific Reports and Journal of Environmental Management.

In The Last Decade

Karen C. Short

37 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Karen C. Short United States 16 1.0k 373 274 271 126 40 1.1k
Fermín Alcasena Spain 22 1.2k 1.2× 221 0.6× 234 0.9× 376 1.4× 109 0.9× 42 1.3k
Nathan Mietkiewicz United States 12 880 0.9× 316 0.8× 186 0.7× 162 0.6× 148 1.2× 14 1.0k
Lara Vilar Spain 13 897 0.9× 347 0.9× 137 0.5× 298 1.1× 58 0.5× 20 1.0k
M. Lucrecia Pettinari Spain 15 894 0.9× 405 1.1× 134 0.5× 144 0.5× 45 0.4× 19 981
J. J. Hollis Australia 11 589 0.6× 157 0.4× 164 0.6× 108 0.4× 50 0.4× 19 659
Dave Calkin United States 9 619 0.6× 157 0.4× 118 0.4× 151 0.6× 94 0.7× 18 672
Ana C. L. Sá Portugal 18 750 0.7× 315 0.8× 119 0.4× 161 0.6× 32 0.3× 29 831
Kelvin Hirsch Canada 12 1.5k 1.5× 489 1.3× 153 0.6× 210 0.8× 58 0.5× 16 1.6k
E. Natasha Stavros United States 14 626 0.6× 289 0.8× 109 0.4× 116 0.4× 36 0.3× 36 829
Marj Tonini Switzerland 19 658 0.6× 170 0.5× 105 0.4× 457 1.7× 33 0.3× 47 1.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karen C. Short

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All Works

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Day, Michelle A., Lisa M. Ellsworth, Karen C. Short, et al.. (2025). Optimizing woody fuel treatments to reduce wildfire risk to sagebrush ecosystems in the Great Basin of the western US. Journal of Environmental Management. 392. 126672–126672.
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Abatzoglou, John T., Erica Fleishman, Karen C. Short, et al.. (2025). Inference of Wildfire Causes From Their Physical, Biological, Social and Management Attributes. Earth s Future. 13(1). 8 indexed citations
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Williams, Park, Caroline S. Juang, & Karen C. Short. (2025). The Western United States MTBS-Interagency database of large wildfires, 1984–2024 (WUMI2024a). Earth system science data. 17(12). 7359–7372.
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Abatzoglou, John T., Erica Fleishman, Emily Williams, et al.. (2025). COVID‐19 Fueled an Elevated Number of Human‐Caused Ignitions in the Western United States During the 2020 Wildfire Season. Earth s Future. 13(4). 1 indexed citations
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Holdrege, Martin C., Daniel R. Schlaepfer, Kyle A. Palmquist, et al.. (2024). Wildfire probability estimated from recent climate and fine fuels across the big sagebrush region. Fire Ecology. 20(1). 12 indexed citations
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Chambers, Jeanne C., Eva K. Strand, Lisa M. Ellsworth, et al.. (2024). Review of fuel treatment effects on fuels, fire behavior and ecological resilience in sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems in the Western U.S.. Fire Ecology. 20(1). 7 indexed citations
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Urza, Alexandra K., David I. Board, John B. Bradford, et al.. (2024). Disentangling drivers of annual grass invasion: Abiotic susceptibility vs. fire-induced conversion to cheatgrass dominance in the sagebrush biome. Biological Conservation. 297. 110737–110737. 3 indexed citations
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Braziunas, Kristin H., et al.. (2024). Multiple social and environmental factors affect wildland fire response of full or less-than-full suppression. Journal of Environmental Management. 351. 119731–119731. 7 indexed citations
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Crist, Michele R., et al.. (2024). Will It Burn? Characterizing Wildfire Risk for the Sagebrush Conservation Design. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 97. 84–93. 7 indexed citations
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Borduas‐Dedekind, Nadine, et al.. (2023). Journals with open-discussion forums are excellent educational resources for peer review training exercises. Earth system science data. 15(3). 1437–1440.
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Ellsworth, Lisa M., Eva K. Strand, Matt C. Reeves, et al.. (2023). Fuel treatments in shrublands experiencing pinyon and juniper expansion result in trade-offs between desired vegetation and increased fire behavior. Fire Ecology. 19(1). 6 indexed citations
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Chambers, Jeanne C., Jessi L. Brown, Matthew C. Reeves, et al.. (2023). Fuel treatment response groups for fire-prone sagebrush landscapes. Fire Ecology. 19(1). 5 indexed citations
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Chambers, Jeanne C., Jessi L. Brown, John B. Bradford, et al.. (2023). Combining resilience and resistance with threat‐based approaches for prioritizing management actions in sagebrush ecosystems. Conservation Science and Practice. 5(11). 16 indexed citations
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Downing, William M., et al.. (2022). Human ignitions on private lands drive USFS cross-boundary wildfire transmission and community impacts in the western US. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 2624–2624. 28 indexed citations
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Ager, Alan A., Michelle A. Day, Fermín Alcasena, et al.. (2021). Predicting Paradise: Modeling future wildfire disasters in the western US. The Science of The Total Environment. 784. 147057–147057. 40 indexed citations
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Olsen, Christine S., Jeffrey D. Kline, Alan A. Ager, Keith A. Olsen, & Karen C. Short. (2017). Examining the influence of biophysical conditions on wildland–urban interface homeowners’ wildfire risk mitigation activities in fire-prone landscapes. Ecology and Society. 22(1). 58 indexed citations
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Short, Karen C.. (2015). Sources and implications of bias and uncertainty in a century of US wildfire activity data. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 24(7). 883–891. 38 indexed citations
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Short, Karen C.. (2014). A spatial database of wildfires in the United States, 1992-2011. Earth system science data. 6(1). 1–27. 120 indexed citations
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Short, Karen C.. (2013). A spatial database of wildfires in the United States, 1992–2011. 6 indexed citations
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Vogelmann, James E., Brian Tolk, Stephen M. Howard, et al.. (2010). Monitoring Landscape Change for LANDFIRE Using Multi-Temporal Satellite Imagery and Ancillary Data. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 4(2). 252–264. 55 indexed citations

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